graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour pencil/30x21cm
In what seems to be proving a slower week for the drawing project, this
most recent subject to be processed represents Ove Grahn, who was selected for inclusion
in both the FKS & Panini ‘World Cup ‘74’ collectors’ albums, & the
Sweden squad for the finals themselves, where he went on to appear in &
throughout all six of the Swedes’ first & second phase group matches.
Unlike a couple of his Swedish teammates, Grahn’s, in common with the far
greater majority of the players involved in the ’74 World Cup, is not a name I
recall from experience of the television coverage of the tournament, although,
having also played twice during the 1970 tournament (& scoring a last-minute
winner against Uruguay then), history records a certain World Cup pedigree. He
passed away, aged 64, in 2007.
Back in the present (just to prove we can do that too here at TOoT), this
drawing was brought to a conclusion to the accompaniment of Spain’s shock demise,
eliminated from the current World Cup after only two matches of their defence
of the trophy courtesy of a 0 -2 defeat to a most impressive Chile, following their
opening, calamitous 1 – 5 capitulation to eventually rampant Holland: how
quickly history moves on (although had David Silva scored to make it 2 – 0 at
one stage against the Dutch, would that have slowed the process, if not changed
the course?).
And why couldn’t Ramos & Casillas have performed quite so
incompetently during the Champions’ League Final?
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